308 research outputs found
Student wellbeing for those with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities: Same, same but different?
No full textThe nature of student wellbeing, although now subject to some consensus, continues to engender debate. To improve student wellbeing, widely regarded to be an overarching non-academic outcome of schooling, it is generally argued that it must be consensually conceptualised in order to be operationally defined and made measurable. The new Australian Curriculum puts forward common educational curriculum and outcomes for all students – including those outcomes implicitly and explicitly related to student wellbeing, but for students with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities this is, argues the author, philosophically and practically problematic. The author puts forward a research-based conceptualisation of subjective wellbeing for these students and recommends this as a basis for guiding a continuing research agenda to improve their wellbeing
Beauty for the Present: Mill, Arnold, Ruskin and Aesthetic Education
No full textThe present thesis examines the idea of aesthetic education of three eminent Victorians: John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin. By focusing on the essence of what they meant with ‘the cultivation of the beautiful’ and, more importantly, the way their ideas of beauty informed their criticism of society, my study aims to contribute to our understanding of the idea of aesthetic education in the Victorian context and, further, to participate in a recent debate about the nature of beauty and aesthetic education.
Chapter One focuses on John Stuart Mill’s concept of ‘feeling’ in a series of essays. I will demonstrate how Mill’s idea of ‘aesthetic education’ was an ‘education of feelings,’ and moreover, how this idea was integrated into his literary criticism, his later critique of democratisation, his description of an ideal liberal society and even his own style of writing. Chapter Two contains a comparative study of Matthew Arnold and Friedrich Schiller. Through a rereading of Arnold, I will argue that his idea of aesthetic education is essentially Schillerian and that their resemblance consists primarily in their stress on the importance of aesthetic unity for modern life, which was becoming increasingly fragmentary and multitudinous. Chapter Three examines John Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education and concentrates particularly on the cultivation of perception. Perception, as I shall show, was pivotal in Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education. Just as what happened in Mill and Arnold, the emphasis on the education of seeing continued from his early writings well into his art and social criticisms. It not only differentiated him from his fellow art critics; the conviction that people should perceive with a pure heart also enabled him to link observation of artistic details with moral criticism of contemporary society and, thereby, to turn the cultivation of the beautiful into a moral-aesthetic experience
Filtering systems of coupled stochastic differential equations partially observed at high frequency
No full textWe consider online analysis of systems of stochastic differential equations (SDEs),
from high-frequency data. The class of SDEs we focus on have constant volatility and
a drift function that is of gradient form. For these models we present a particle filter
that is able to analyse the full data, but whose computational cost does not increase
as the frequency of the data increases. The method is based on novel extensions
of the exact algorithm for simulation and inference of diffusions, and the filters do
not need to introduce any approximations through time-discretisation of the process.
The new methods have important practical and theoretical advantages over existing
filtering methods for this problem. We demonstrate our method on a number of
simulated examples, including two motivated by molecular dynamics
European justice: the Scottish contribution.
No full textOf the eleven UK members of the Court of Justice from 1973 until 2020, three have been Scottish jurists, namely AJ Mackenzie Stuart, David Edward and Ian Forrester. Each of them has played an important role at the Court and they all contributed to the shaping of EU Law while there. In particular, Scottish judges' names can be associated with important judicial statements in the fields of free movement of goods and EU Citizenship. In so doing, the three Scottish judges can be said to have made a unique and enduring contribution to the moulding of EU legal principles. Can it be asserted that this contribution was facilitated by the Scots law background and connections of these three judges? That may be not easily proven but by looking at some of the factors which shaped the three Scottish judges and by examining some individual judgments with which they are connected, a picture emerges of an especially robust level of influence exerted by the Scottish judges at the EU Court, an influence which endures there even after UK membership has ended. Perennial sovereignty v supranationalism frictions have long been at the heart of European integration. Scots lawyers and judges willingly entered that fray and sought resolutions from within. None of this is a co-incidence; from the time of the Act of Union, Scots lawyers have adapted to and used their unique heritage of mixed legal traditions and their intellectual rigour and values of the Scottish Enlightenment in order to take their place outwith their jurisdictional boundaries
Collaborative stretching: A research agenda for enhancing the quality of lives of people with severe cognitive impairments
No full textTesting the efficiency of the U.K. financial futures markets.
No full textPhDThis thesis tests the efficiency of the U.K. financial futures
market, using data over the period from September 1982 to March
1985. In examining the efficiency of the U.K. financial futures
market a number of significant contributions are made to the
existing literature.
First, efficiency is examined on a data set that has not been
rigorously examined. Second, more comprehensive tests of efficiency
are proposed within this thesis than are reported elsewhere in
the literature.
chapter one provides a summary and review of the issues examined
in the thesis. A detailed explanation of what constitutes a
financial futures contract is given in chapter two, which covers
the operational and institutional aspects of financial futures
markets.
A comprehensive survey of the literature is presented in chapters
three and four. Chapter three looks in detail at the early theory
and discusses the theoretical issues that are relevant in terms of
financial futures. Chapter four examines the empirical literature
and issues involved in testing efficiency.
Five hypotheses are proposed that a financial futures market
should possess. These hypotheses are then used to test efficiency
on the U.K. financial futures market in chapters five to eight.
First, arbitrage opportunities should not exist between the
futures market and the underlying cash or the corresponding
forward market. Second, it should not be possible to develop
profitable pricing rules on the basis of past prices. Third,
assuming risk neutrality, futures rates should be unbiased
predictions of the futures rate at the maturity day of the contract.
Fourth, news effects should explain any forecast errors that arise.
Fifth, futures rates should incorporate all relevant information
and hence exhibit variance.
The rigorous examination of these different hypotheses finds that
the U.K. financial futures market is efficien
Embroidered rhetoric: the social, religious and political functions of elite women's needlework, c.1560-1630
No full textThis thesis focuses on the Elizabethan and Jacobean aristocracy and upper gentry to yield the first detailed study of the elite needleworking woman as fashioner of her social personage, and of the objects she produced as indices of social persona, religious conscience and political agency.
The first chapter explores how needlework mediates between wtiwomeann d their social context. It surveys the way in which needlework, both as practice and as object, functioned as a vehicle for projecting persona and personage into a social context which interpreted needlework according to complex value systems of personal virtue and the husbandries of conspicuous wealth. The chapter explores needlework as a site for intellectual expression. The theories developed in the first chapter are tested in a case study of Bess of Hardwick, whose textiles show her construction of a virtuous aristocratic persona proclaiming its self-assured place in the social hierarchy.
Chapter Two is the first study to consider the needlework of Elizabethan and Jacobean Catholics in the light of the Protestant proscription of iconic vestments. It recovers the history of lost needlework from English convents on the Continent, and of the English recusants' covert provision of vestments to Jesuit missioners. The first detailed case studs' of Helena Wintour's vestments reads Wintour's Jesuit-influenced Marian floral emblems and iconography alongside Hawkins's meditation handbook Partheneia Sacra to theorise Wintour's devotion to the Immaculate Conception, and explores the vestments' relationship to the liturgy and their iconographical importance to the Mass.
Chapter Three considers needlework gifts as political currency within patronage structures at the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts. Narrated with a contemporary vocabulary of grace, needlework gifts contribute to the construction of court-crown relations, symbolised by needlework gifts in Jacobean court masques. Through needlework gifts a `feminine commonwealth' availed itself of power structures at the court of James's consort that parallel his departments, and the women's political agency in a female political hierarchy is seen encoded within gifts of needlework in the Queen's Courts final masque. The case study uses Mary's needlework gifts to Elizabeth as an index of changes in their relationship. Mary's needlework joins parallel texts such as poetry, portraiture and planned masques in developing an iconographical vocabulary centring on the Judgement of Paris, with which diplomatic negotiations sought to clarify the Queens' relative positions
Class of 1980 (June)
No full textClass composite photograph for Chicago-Kent College of Law class of June 1980.
Students and faculty pictured:
Faculty
Ray Berry
Ralph Brill
James Bross
Howard S. Chapman
Lewis M. Collens
Stuart L. Deutsch
John Drac
Howard Eglit
Philip Hablutzel
David A. Helms
Gary S. Laser
Bruce Levin
Jill K. McNulty
Sheldon H. Nahmod
David S. Rudstein
Jeffrey G. Sherman
Shelvin Singer
Dean J. Sodaro
Michael Spak
Ron Staudt
Joan E. Steinman
Students
Barbara Agnew
Carol Alexander
June Alter
Glen Amundsen
Judith Anetsberger
G. Christine bach
Kurt D. Baer
James Beard
Stephen Bell
Richard Michael Beuke
Paul Kenneth Binder
Cheryl A. Blumenthal
Sandra Boron
Kathleen Boyle
Gail V. Brenner
Margaret Browne
Delilah Brummet
Donald Irving Burnes
Jane Burton
Marguerite A. Butler
Karin M. Byrne
Jean Marie Capper
Karen Carasik
Nancy Cass
Patricia Mary Cassiday
Timothy John Chambers
Brett Clamage
Faye Coultas
Kerry Cummings
Susan Daumer
Howard Davis
John Doll
Gregory Ellis
Steven Emberton
Anne Epstein
Kathy Kosnoff Erlinder
Harold Everett Faletti
Judith Feder
Eileen Lois Fein
Melvin Fein
Jane Fields
Michael Fine
James Fishburn
Marta Forowycz
June Fournier
Virginia Geist
Bettina Gembala
Margaret Glass
Thomas Goldrick
Kurt Granberg
Diane Greanias
Shelton Green
Gordon Greenberg
Francine Green-Kelner
Robert Harris
Adrianne Harvitt
David Heisler
Stephen Heller
Lance Henrickson
Roger Herdrich
Robert Hoffmann
Blanche Hurt
Joel Hymen
Marian Janda
Anne Jaskula
Eugenie Johnson
Randolph Johnston
Sharon Kahn
Mary Jo Kanady
Frederick Kaplan
Adam Kara
Kim Kardas
Richard Karr
Joseph King, Jr.
Marybeth Kinney
Gerald Kirschbaum
Robin Kite
Leslie Klein
Wendy Klein
Timothy Kosnoff
Dawn Langer
Brian Lassen
Vincent Lavieri
Jane Lee
Steven Levit
Wendy Leviton
Richard Levy
Michael Libman
Hal Lipshutz
Richard Lloyd
Ronald Lorsch
Paul Lossau
Margaret Lundahl
Lawrence Lundgren
Jocelyn Lyman
Cynthia Lyons
Francine Malek
Rose Mancini
Catherine Bjork Marquis
Bruce Marshak
Victoria Martin
Virginia Marziani
Robert Matanky
Michael McCarty
Colleen McLaughlin
Jeanne Mentschikoff
Suzanne Metzel
Robert Monitz
Thalia Moy
Carl Muth
Anita Nagler
Beth Phillips
Debbie Pines
Ann Pollack
David Porter
Judy Poskozim
Bradley Prendergast
Ursula Ragsdale
Susan Redfield
Daniel Resnik
Kathleen Reynolds-Murphy
Elizabeth Rice
Gary Rizzo
Gilbert Ross
Jeffrey Rubin
Walter Rucinski, Jr.
Gil Sapir
Shirley Schaeffer
William Schloss
Peter Schoonmaker
Alan Schuster
Ronald Schwartz
Susan Schwartz
James Scull
Claudia Semeniuk
Joann Shrier
David Sigalow
Frances Skinner
Elizabeth Sklarsky
Mark Slutsky
Keith Staats
Mark Standefer
Thomas Starck
Michael Starkman
John Steiner, Jr.
Charlotte Stone
Susan Sundman
Marion Szczech
Carol Taylor
Mark Thompson
Grace Timberlake
Elizabeth Tozer
Frank Voltaggio
John Walsh
Gordon Williams
Sherri Wolff
Susan Zeller
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Ethnic identity, political identity and ethnic conflict: simulating the effect of congruence between the two identities on ethnic violence and conflict
No full textThis thesis outlines and presents an alternative hypothetical process to the emergence of ethnic conflict. Ethnic conflicts, rather than being dependent upon pre-existing 'ancient hatreds', are instead the result of a congruence between ethnic and political identity which grants individuals the ability to use ethnicity to identify and eliminate political threats. This hypothesis is formed by the examination of three case studies of ethnic conflict: Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Croatia. This hypothesis is then formalised and tested using an agent based simulation in which agent interactions are dependent upon ethnic and political identity and the congruence between the two. As predicted there was a strong positive correlation between how accurately ethnic identity reflected political identity and the level of ethnically motivated violence in the simulation, although the relationship was not linear. Furthermore the effect of a shift in congruence was found to be roughly comparable to the effect of initialising agents with a moderate level of pre-existing ethnic antagonism
A 'philosophical storehouse': the life and afterlife of the Royal Society's repository
No full textPhDIn June 1781, the Royal Society’s repository was transferred to the British
Museum. Though ostensibly as a result of the limited space in the Royal Society’s
purpose-built accommodation at Somerset House, the Society were perhaps also a
little relieved to relinquish a collection that had proved to be somewhat burdensome
during its residence at the Society and which was frequently criticised for its decaying
specimens, broken items and missing, possibly stolen, objects. However this seems to
be only part of the story. Drawing upon manuscript material in the Royal Society and
the British Library, this study will examine the repository’s pattern of usage,
collecting strategies and intellectual output throughout its life, in addition to exploring
its afterlife at the British Museum using the British Museum’s, Royal College of
Surgeon’s and Natural History Museum’s extensive archives. This thesis will seek to
reveal an alternative account of the Royal Society’s repository arguing that it was
comprised of a substantial and significant collection that the British Museum, at least
initially, appears to have been grateful to receive and which, periodically, played a
central role in the Society’s and naturalists' work
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